project: zelky 3.0

This cluster is a offline, online substitute allowing the sharing of stories, pictures, Memes will fellow locals. Sharing your offline world to a online vault.

Zelky is designed to be resilient, self healing, offline-first seed vault designed to preserve data and communication during network isolation.

Hardware: Banana Pi m4 zero & Raspberry pi zero 2 [x2] Cluster OS: Armbian, Raspberry OS. Status: Kinda working.

About yet another project to save the world

This cluster is a small, practical inplementation to a much larger idea: yet another project to save the world. The project outlines a philosophy for rebuilding society from the ground up—by empowering local, trusted groups with open-source digital tools they control.

At its heart is a simple framework for understanding our interactions:

• Lead: Things we can ignore.
• Metal: Tasks that demand our action.
• Golden: People and projects we cherish and protect.

The goal is to help communities upgrade “lead” into “metal,” and “metal” into “golden” by providing them with a unified, private digital platform called Project Chimera. This platform combines tools like Discord, Nextcloud, and WordPress to give any group—a neighborhood, a garden, a clan—the resilience and autonomy to organize, communicate, and collaborate from the bottom up.

This Zelky cluster is an experiment in building that kind of resilient, self-healing, offline-first infrastructure on a tiny scale.

Bram Diederik

Bram Diederik aka daft_dutch aka Raspberry Brambo, is a creative person that thinks inspiration should be unconditionally free. And dislikes it when he is limited due to current development or limited creativity of others.

daft_dutch saw things no one saw and heard things no one heard. He has a diffrent reality than most. just let him be he means no harm. Just because he does things no one else does dosnt make it bad.

• Github
• Youtube
• Bluesky
• LinkedIN

History

Zelky (2.0)

Raspberry Pi zero 2w. Same setup as zelky (1.0) but then with snapcast

Zelky (1.0)

Did you ever played music somewhere off site with a bluetooth speaker for like hours. And at a moment you want to watch some shorts. Well you cant because your bluetooth speaker is connected.

Zelky was born by making a wifi mpd player controlled from a remote home assistant. Using a vpn connection.